I am looking to make a mobile application (iOS and Android app) that will interact with a website. The app will need to log in with a provided username and password and also get some information from ...

My friend and I were discussing a script for automating a certain task and the solution involved using Selenium to automate the pressing of certain buttons.
However when we click the send button of ...

I am used to user testing in Java, and I also manually test each section of code I write, but now, I want to automate it.
There is no GUI for this project, so user testing is not required and I can ...

How to distribute, one virtual token to each person in this world, and make sure nobody gets more than one?
In other words, how to prevent a user from creating more than one user account in a site?
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We are developing a desktop application and I am responsible for GUI testing. Currently we have around 500 tests which take 8 hours to complete.
The tests are testing almost every button/menu/field ...

While it is relatively possible for an experienced developer to estimate how long it will take to implement code when the pattern and problem the code is solving is well understood, how can you make a ...

I have been asked to automate the operation of a Windows (WinForms) application, performing some fairly complicated statistical analysis along the way.
My first thought was the usual suspects: .NET, ...

Our team is currently facing a situation where we are changing a feature that is in the product today. This feature has Selenium automation tests associated with it.
We are performing a fairly major ...

I am a DBA fledgling with a lot of experience in programming.
I have developed several CLI, non interactive apps that solve some daily repetitive tasks or eliminate the human error from more complex ...

I work on a project that uses a SQL database as a back end, and a desktop app as a front end. We do releases on a regular basis, and as part of a release, our client needs to update their SQL server.
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I was wondering whether the community utilizes automation tests to the extent of UI? Is there some common best practices for testing UI?
Also - the product I'm working on is flex-based. I would love ...

I recently started at a company and am working on statistical data analysis and data handling (market research). A lot of my tasks were previously done entirely by hand, so I created a few tools to ...

In our software environment, we often run a/b tests, as is probably good practice. However, our environment is set up such that, in very short order, the code starts to become very crufty with dead ...

I have to extend/fix a large online form written by other developer. There is a lot of code, mixing PHP and JS. It's kind of write-only style of coding and I want to redo it completely, but currently ...

When someone refers to "Development Automation", what is it exactly?
What are some frameworks for development automation?
My boss asked me to develop a strategy for implementing such in the company ...

I've been setting up debug tags for automated testing of a GWT-based web application. This involves turning on custom debug id tags/attributes for elements in the source of the app. It's a non-trivial ...

I recently finished my C++ programming class, and I'll start school in september. There is a limited online Parking spot registration and it always gets filled very quickly.
I would like to create a ...

I've got this idea for some time and I was wondering if anyone has seen such a feature/app in any operating system and if you haven't, what do you think about it. Where do you think I should begin?
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I have a MySQL database and an automation script which modifies the data inside once a day. And these columns may have changed by an user manually. What is the best approach to make the system only ...

I have a web crawler, and I'm looking for hints that will help me automatically detect a website country of origin.
And by country of origin I generally mean the country the website is targeting. For ...

I face various types of applications (web-based, GUI-based, command-line, etc.) on various platforms (Windows, Linux, etc.) to operate everyday. There is a great opportunity for me to automate tasks ...

There are a number of questions on this site that give plenty of information about the benefits that can be gained from automated testing. But I didn't see anything that represented the other side of ...

What document types could be used when describing software testing automation (on any phase, automation planning, test design, implementation, reporting)? Is there any standard types of documents?
If ...

There are few situations that require users to provide their password while automating things during development process. Site deployment is only one of the common situations. Creating dmg files under ...

I am wondering whether I should branch our installer script/project-file (we use InnoSetup) with each application release or whether I should keep one in installer script
that generates the setup for ...

I want to automatically generate documentation for a java project, but I'd like to have my own custom styling for it.
As an example, take the stackoverflow api (method description page), can that be ...